‘It’s a really exciting time to sort of distill what is the core DNA of the party and invite the people in, in an authentic, meaningful way,’ says Prateek Awasthi, who’ll mark his first day on the job on May 4.

The department says to date 85 projects in the Parliamentary Precinct have been ‘temporarily demobilized’ in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, a list that includes interior repairs to the East Block building.